Our Difficulty Aiming Vortex @ "Finding" Fallout 4 Mods

[Gorgopis]

We recently added a gift, an external SSD, set it up as drive F, and on it installed Fallout 4 which was on sale at STEAM.

 

Next, F04 played fine straight from the executable.

 

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But when we next went to integrate F04 with our Vortex, and downloaded, while logged into Vortex, the Nexus 2022 F04 Script Extender, and a couple of other mods, Vortex couldn't seem to find the F04SE.exe.

 

 

So far we have no success starting the game from the F04SE.exe tool on Vortex, which we did try to edit for the correct SSD pathway, but which Vortex can't seem to find, though we can see the fo4se.exe right there in the folder on that F drive.

 

We're pretty sure our folder pathways are not right, as far as Vortex is concerned.

 

We're sure this is very simple, but we are (also) having lots of brain fog.

 

Thanks for any advice.

 

We would like to also install MCM and bodyslide and set them up as Vortex F04 tools when the time comes.

 

 

[showler]

Removable drives are treated differently than fixed drives by Windows. That might be interfering with Vortex's ability to use it properly?

[Gorgopis]

Follow-Up, partly solved, but not completely.

 

We "finally" got Vortex to "see" Fallout 4" SKSE and play from the Vortex dashboard. We don't know how we solved this, but this may have been what we did:

 

1. We studied the location folder tree where the f4 skse loader.exe was, and entered that pathway using the Vortex SKSE-tool editor (the three dots), and, after it didn't work at first, we quit Vortex, restarted the PC, and when we started Vortex up we could NOW run F04 from the dashboard.

 

We recall setting F04 .ini window-resolution-files first, and next playing from the F04 native .exe desktop icon first before doing the above??? So, to implement F04 SKSE, run the game natively first outside of Vortex, from its new drive?

 

Problem remaining:

 

2. We still can't get Bodyslide for F04 to run from the Vortex Window.

 

Thanks for anyone continuing to follow this thread!